originally posted by Joe Dressner:
originally posted by David M. Bueker:
Do you often pray for people you've never met? As far as I know, we've never met.
It's a special boon for wine importers.
I'd be deeply appreciative if you didn't pray for me.
Is that ok with you?
The best thing you can do for me, in this very personal time, is to not pray for me.
Pray for Brad Kane or someone else who needs salvation.
OK?
I'd like to drop some knowledge on David. As a a WASP (and while David is most likely of German ancestry, it is close enough) we are trained from en early age to offer all sorts of condolences and to try to empathize with those suffering. I'm not sure about David, but around about college, I was exposed to Jews. They are not raised this way. Judaism is a religion of punishment, not empathy.
So in effect, you just can't pray for Jews*. If we're right, they are going to burn in hell and they know it. Even worse for Joe, he is a self-hating-Jew-that-won't-import-Kosher-wine. That means, if the Messiah does finally come for his people, he is in for a world of Old Testament ass-rape.
To compound it all, he's a Menshevik, which is the most obscure and ill fated of all the communist factions. And as any student of History** knows, you can't really change sides in this whole commie thing. This is also why he is so resigned to his fate and immune to our WASPy entreaties. There is a strong fatalistic streak in the Mensheviks.
So, in essence, Joe is right. Your efforts are much better spent on Brad Kane who is probably susceptible to the "Jews for Jesus" stuff.
Joe, feel free to re-print this on your blog if it will help other WASPs understand Jews and dying.
* That doesn't mean you shouldn't, it just means they won't understand it. To them, God is a fire-breathing, pestilence bringing badass-mofo, so just mentioning them to God scares them because you might bring them to His attention.
** History is capitalized because we are talking Marxism here.